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Focuses on the policies of the United Nations toward Iraq prior to the Iraq War in 2003. Development of the Oil-for-Food program by former U.S. President Bill Clinton beginning in 1991; Impact of negative public opinion of U.N. sanctions against Iraq; Outcome of including the Oil-for-Food program in the sanctions policy; Investigations into alleged corruption in the Oil-for-Food program's administration; Recommendations for reform of United Nations management and operations.

Examines the multiple intelligence theory of Howard Gardner, a professor at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Thesis of Gardner's theory on multiple intelligence; Intelligences identified by Gardner in his book "Frames of Mind"; Reaction of the scientific community to the multiple intelligence theory; Description of a model school rendered by Gardner in his book "Multiple Intelligences"; Information on Key Learning Center, a multiple intelligence school in Indianapolis, Minnesota.

Examines the political, economic and social problems of India. Observation that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's inactivity in the face of corruption and incompetence has prompted her opponents to criticize her both for being undemocratic and for being ineffectually authoritarian; Bureaucracy's throttling of every sector of the Indian economy except the black market; Violence among the Sikhs in the state of Punjab.

Profiles Derrick Bell, professor at the New York University Law School. Family; Education; Career history; Controversy concerning Bell's decision to leave his tenured position at Harvard Law School because of the school's refusal to offer tenure to a black woman he supported; Publication of Bell's book "Faces at the Bottom of the Well"; Question posed by Bell on whether blacks should put their trusts in the legal process that began with the civil rights movement; Decision of blacks to join with whites to accept partial resegregation in exchange for a fairer distribution of educational resources; Views of Bell on the civil rights movement.

Reports that convictions in major white-collar cases that were framed by former United States attorney for the Southern District of New York Rudolph Giuliani were reversed one after the other. Allegation that Giuliani targeted business practices that were unorthodox rather than criminal; Author's view that the prosecutors and judges were operating in areas where the rules were unclear; Appointment of Otto Obermaier as successor to Giuliani.

Presents an article about the decline in the murder rate in New York City as of January 1997. Impact of poverty and unemployment on the crime rate in the city; Influence of illegal drug trade on the increasing murder rate in the region in the 1990s; Efforts of the city police to rehabilitate the notorious neighborhoods in the region including Washington Heights.

Reports that U.S. President Ronald Reagan has announced the nomination of Edwin Meese to replace William French Smith as attorney general. Involvement of E. Robert Wallach, a close friend and legal adviser of Edwin Meese, in corruption; Information on the testimony of defense contractor Wedtech Corp. which had been trying to get the Navy to award it a $24 million contract to build pontoon bridges; Claim that Wedtech's executives built a $100 million company out of the rubble of the Bronx not by building a better engine, but by bribing virtually everyone who could have helped them or hurt them.

Focuses on the integration of U.S. educational system. Argument pertaining to the quality and standard of education; Suggestion to abandon the drive for integration in order to focus exclusively on improving the quality of the schools; Information that in the mid-1970's Buffalo's children received an education that was both segregated and mediocre; Establishment of a number of new schools to concentrate on the needs of children from pre-kindergarten to the third grade.

Reports on U.S. President Ronald Reagan's proposed legislation aimed at establishing urban enterprising zones in the country. Offering of tax breaks and regulatory concessions to businesses to persuade them to relocate or expand; Role of Mayor William Schaefer in promoting sustained government involvement; Other benefits offered to businesses offered by the Enterprise Zone Tax Act of 1982; Problems by small-businesses in the country; Supporters of the proposed enterprise zones.

Addresses the affirmative action policy implemented at the University of Texas Law School. Passage of a law that would require the undergraduate college to accept a percentage of graduates from every high school; Argument presented by professors at an amicus brief submitted to the supreme court in an affirmative action case; Reason behind the university's need for affirmative action.

Focuses on the National Basic Writing conference, held at the University of Maryland, where all the speakers rose to denounce remedial writing as an imperialist, colonialist, arrogant and generally racist endeavor. Creation of basic writing at City College, New York; Reference to Mina Shaughnessy's book "Errors and Expectations" on basic writing; Speakers' objection to the language and process of remedial instruction; Steps taken by the City College before advancing into the regular college curriculum; Writers who labored to overturn Shaughnessy's metaphor of the beginner.

Discusses proposals for the establishment of all-black schools in the United States. Possibility that such schools may have some educational value for children who otherwise seem doomed to failure; Civil rights group's objection to the idea; Hypothetical benefits of school desegregation; Tendency of the proposed all-black schools to stress values and a sense of community; Focus on an Afrocentric curriculum; Draft proposal for the Ujamaa Institute in New York City.